Author: Carol Gigliotti Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479815446 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 304
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"The Creative Lives of Animals offers readers intimate glimpses of how animals from elephants to alligators to ants apply the creative process in their lives, requiring a redefinition of creativity that includes animals as essential contributors to biodiversity"--
Author: Meeg Pincus Publisher: Millbrook Press TM ISBN: 1728455723 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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Around the world, city highways and country roads have cut through natural spaces. Wild animals are blocked from the resources they need to survive, or must make dangerous crossings across busy roads to get to them. Fortunately, solving this problem has inspired some creative solutions! Take a tour of wildlife crossings across the globe, from grassy badger bridges to underpasses for elephants. Discover how these inventive pathways have saved both animal and human lives and helped preserve ecosystems.
Author: Carol Gigliotti Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479815462 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 369
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Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Book Award in the category of Animals & Nature The surprising, fascinating, and remarkable ways that animals use creativity to thrive in their habitats Most of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that seem mostly peripheral to our lives. However, whether animals are building a shelter, seducing a mate, or inventing a new game, animals’ creative choices affect their social, cultural, and environmental worlds. The Creative Lives of Animals offers readers intimate glimpses of creativity in the lives of animals, from elephants to alligators to ants. Drawing on a growing body of scientific research, Carol Gigliotti unpacks examples of creativity demonstrated by animals through the lens of the creative process, an important component of creative behavior, and offers new thinking on animal intelligence, emotion, and self-awareness. With examples of the elaborate dams built by beavers or the lavishly decorated bowers of bowerbirds, Gigliotti provides a new perspective on animals as agents in their own lives, as valuable contributors to their world and ours, and as guides in understanding how creativity may contribute to conserving the natural world. Presenting a powerful argument for the importance of recognizing animals as individuals and as creators of a healthy, biodiverse world, this book offers insights into both the established and emerging questions about the creativity of animals.
Author: John Bailey Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030813819 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 489
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This book describes the life and times of fifty-three great British scientists and engineers – male and female inventive geniuses who changed the world, improving the lives of mankind, and propelling humanity forward. Their stories abound with personal ingenuity, brilliance and scientific or engineering wizardry, and with the ambition to satisfy fundamental human needs. The author aspires to set these individual achievements in the socio-political context of their place in history, sometimes embracing the activities of others to round off the story and scientific contribution. Avoiding overly technical language, he nonetheless succeeds in making complex theories and technologies more comprehensible and accessible to a lay audience. This book is a must for all those interested in the prehistory and history of the steam engine, transport, communication technology, public health services, and many topics from the natural sciences. Many of the inventions described in its pages have helped shape the modern world.
Author: Roberto Marchesini Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031074149 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 384
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This book deals with the theme of creativity in the animal world, conceived as a basic function for adapting to specific situations and as a source of innovations and inventions. Creativity is a fundamental resource for the individual who always has a leading role in conduct. To explain creativity, the book focuses on the concept of animal subjectivity, providing a new explanatory model of behavior capable of overcoming the image of the animal moved by automatisms. This model does not use consciousness as a necessary condition, but is based: 1) on affective components, such as behavioral motives, and 2) cognitive, as tools used by the subject to carry out his purposes. Particular attention is paid to the learning processes showing the subjective character of the experience. One topic addressed is the role of creativity in the evolution of living beings: how an invention, by modifying the niche characteristics, is able to change the selective pressures and the trajectory of phylogeny. Roberto Marchesini explains that creativity is a factor that is anything but rare or exceptional in the animal world—it constitutes a fundamental quality for many aspects of animal life.
Author: Publisher: Academic Press ISBN: 0128007133 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 539
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Animal Creativity and Innovation explores theories and research on animal innovation and creativity, comparing and contrasting it with theory and research on human creativity and innovation. In doing so, it encompasses findings from psychology, biology, neuroscience, engineering, business, ecology, and education. The book includes examples of animal innovation in parrots, dogs, marine mammals, insects, and primates, exploring parallels from creative play in children. The book defines creativity, differentiating it from play, and looks at evolutionary models and neurological constructs. The book further explores applied aspects of animal innovation and creativity including tool use and group dynamics, as well as barriers to creativity. The final chapters look into how creative behavior may be taught or trained. Each chapter is followed by a commentary for integration of thoughts and ideas between animal and human research, behavioral and cognitive research, and theory and observation in real life. Compares theory and research on animal and human creativity Defines and differentiates creativity from play Reviews applied creativity in tool use and social dynamics Includes examples of animal creativity in multiple species
Author: Abi Cushman Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1984836668 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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With a nod to Richard Scarry, this inventive picture book surprises readers with every turn of the page! Hiss! Screech! Roar! It's a noisy day in Bumperville! But are the sounds what you think they are? That Honk! must surely be a goose. But turn the page and it's the taxi that a goose is driving! Using cleverly placed die-cuts, this inventive book hints at what is making the sound, but with each turn of the page, it's an eye-opening surprise and part of an unfolding story that is part guessing game and part giggle-inducing caper. Abi Cushman is the master of surprise and silliness in this absolutely delightful picture book.
Author: Steve Jenkins Publisher: Clarion Books ISBN: 9780547341279 Category : Animal behavior Languages : en Pages : 0
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Turn wheels, pull tabs, lift flaps, and open doors to reveal twenty-six different animals and discover the many remarkable ways that going bottoms-up helps them to survive.--
Author: Nizar M. Benazzouz PhD Publisher: Nizar M. Benazzouz PhD ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 540
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Unveiling the Secrets Behind All Successful Creations Within the Human Matrix. Written by Digital Transformation Manager & Innovation Professor: Nizar M. Benazzouz, PhD Imagine a world where innovation permeates every facet of existence. A reality where the boundaries between perception and truth blur, revealing a deeper, more enigmatic understanding of our universe. In 'The Innovative Animal: Unveiling the Hidden Pattern within All Natural & Human Innovations,' prepare to embark on a journey that challenges your perception of reality, weaving together ancient wisdom and modern progress to uncover both the visible and hidden layers of the Matrix that shapes your very existence as it: Redefines the vast ocean of innovation beyond the typical business and technological boundaries, to include any natural or human, physical or mental creation serving a purpose. Dives into the deep waters of "change", and how this fundamental concept is intertwined with existence itself. Challenges and superpose western science and progress (quantum physics, industrial revolutions, etc.) and eastern philosophies and beliefs (Yin & Yang, religions, etc.) to build a comprehensive picture of the role of innovation in shaping our reality. Explores the 5 variables of the timeless innovative pattern: Need, Motivation, Creativity, Technology and Value. Provides a thought-provoking outlook into the state-of-the-art of human innovativeness and where it’s leading us as individuals and a species. BONUS: Demonstrates how you are subconsciously innovating your reality every second and how to take control of this process to your and others’ benefit. … Are you ready to expand your innovative consciousness and shatter the illusion that confines your perception to a single and maybe distorted reality ? Pick Up your Own Copy Today to Dive into the Dark Waters of the Matrix that Surrounds us All!
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